How to create a high resolution timer in Linux to measure program performance?

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Check out clock_gettime, which is a POSIX interface to high-resolution timers.

If, having read the manpage, you’re left wondering about the difference between CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, see Difference between CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC?

See the following page for a complete example: http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2007/09/22/profiling-code-using-clock_gettime/

#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>
using namespace std;

timespec diff(timespec start, timespec end);

int main()
{
    timespec time1, time2;
    int temp;
    clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &time1);
    for (int i = 0; i< 242000000; i++)
        temp+=temp;
    clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &time2);
    cout<<diff(time1,time2).tv_sec<<":"<<diff(time1,time2).tv_nsec<<endl;
    return 0;
}

timespec diff(timespec start, timespec end)
{
    timespec temp;
    if ((end.tv_nsec-start.tv_nsec)<0) {
        temp.tv_sec = end.tv_sec-start.tv_sec-1;
        temp.tv_nsec = 1000000000+end.tv_nsec-start.tv_nsec;
    } else {
        temp.tv_sec = end.tv_sec-start.tv_sec;
        temp.tv_nsec = end.tv_nsec-start.tv_nsec;
    }
    return temp;
}

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